Sociology of Health

Recommended Prerequisites

Some knowledge of: History of Pharmacy, Ethics and Pharmaceutical Law.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical lectures and to discuss topics.

Learning Outcomes

Contribute to a comprehensive training of pharmacists by providing a set of knowledge of the sociological on major issues of health, illness, pharmacy and medicine.

Provision of expertise on the role of the pharmacy, the pharmacist and the drug in society.

Providing a set of skills important to the performance in different areas who work as the product as well as regulatory bodies for health, pharmacy and medicine.

Providing a set of fundamental knowledge for the modern profile of the pharmacist in accordance with the profile of pharmacists registered in the Statute of the “Ordem dos Farmacêuticos”.

Providing a set of fundamental knowledge for the training of European pharmaceuticals.  

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1.The sociology of health

2.The sociology applied to pharmacy and medicines.

3.The process of professionalization of pharmacists

4.Relationship between health professionals and patients

5.The role of the pharmacist in today's society

6.A medicalization and medication of society

7.The medicines as a cornerstone of the doctor-patient-pharmacist

8.The product: market versus consumption

9. The social dimension of pharmacy

10.As determinants of social representations of health and disease

11.Practices and representations: the official alternative and complementary

12.New challenges facing the pharmaceutical

13 Of curative medicine to predictive medicine: reflection

14 Political health in national and international context.

15 The health care and pharmaceutical system.

16 Education and promotion of health and its social dimension.

17 New challenges to public health

18 Regulatory mechanisms of health, pharmacy and medicines.

Head Lecturer(s)

João Rui Couto da Rocha Pita

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

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COELHO, AM— A saúde pública no limiar do século XXI Revista Portuguesa de Saúde Pública, 1997, p. 5-9

HARDING, G; NETTLETON, S; TAYLOR, K— Sociology for pharmacists. An introduction, 2ª ed.London Taylor & Francis, 2003

NETTLETON, S— The sociology of health & illness. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996

PIGNARRE, P— Qu'est-ce qu'un médicament? Paris: Éditions La Découverte, 1997

PITA, JR— A farmácia e o medicamento em Portugal nos últimos 25 anos,Debater a Europa, 2-3, 2010, p. 38-55

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SIMÕES, J.; CAMPOS, AC — 40 anos de Abril na saúde. Coimbra:Almedina,2014